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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Robert L. Watt

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a wealthy lawyer, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents, 2 siblings, and 13 slaves at Lawsonville in Rockingham County, NC. He enrolled there on 12 May 1861 and commissioned First Lieutenant of Company K of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 16 May. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was wounded at Williamsburg, VA on 5 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He commanded his company in Maryland and was commended for "gallant bearing" in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 by Lieutenant Colonel Ruffin in his after-action report.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Captain in November to date from 16 October 1862 but died of pneumonia at Camp Gregg, VA near Moss Neck below Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock River on 15 January 1863. He was "in his 20th year."

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His father Robert B. Watt (b. 1814) was later law partner of Capt. E.B. Withers of Company A of the 13th North Carolina.

Birth

c. 1843 in NC

Death

01/15/1863; near Fredericksburg, VA

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, p. 505 [AotW citation 33182]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33183]

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